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    McCain to GOP: Embrace ‘bigger tent,’ ‘leave the [abortion] issue alone’

    McCain to GOP: Embrace ‘bigger tent,’ ‘leave the [abortion] issue alone’

    “And, obviously we have to do immigration reform. There is no doubt whatsoever that the demographics are not on our side."
    dailycaller.com
    11/25/2012
    Jeff Poor

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    On “Fox News Sunday,” Arizona Sen. John McCain said the GOP has work to do, including embracing “a bigger tent” to attract a bigger constituency.

    “I think we have to have a bigger tent. That’s — no doubt about it,” McCain said. “And, obviously we have to do immigration reform. There is no doubt whatsoever that the demographics are not on our side. And, we are going to have to give a much more positive agenda. It can’t be just being against the Democrats and against Harry Reid and against Obama. You got to be for things, and we have to give them something like the Contract with America that we gave them some years ago. We’ve got to give them something to be for.”

    McCain also suggested that the Republican Party should strike a softer tone on social issues.

    “And as far as young women are concerned, absolutely,” he continued. “I don’t think anybody like me — I can state my position on abortion — but … other than that, leave the issue alone when we are in the kind of economic situation and, frankly, national security situation we’re in.”

    “I would allow people to have those opinions and respect those opinions,” McCain added. “I’m proud of my pro-life position and record but if someone disagrees with me, I respect your views.”

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    David Brooks: McCain opposition to Susan Rice based on history, loyalty to John Kerry [VIDEO]

    11/24/2012
    Jeff Poor



    New York Times columnist David Brooks told PBS’s “NewsHour” on Friday that Republican Sen. John McCain has been critical of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice because of both personal animosity and his loyalty to Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry, who along with Rice is rumored to be on the shortlist to become the next secretary of state.

    “I guess my theory is that she’s a sharp-tongued, blunt person, and, in the past, she has taken some shots at John McCain and others, and so this is their chance,” Brooks said. “They have no wellspring of sympathy with her, the way they actually probably do with John Kerry, her potential rival to be the next secretary of state, having taken a bunch of delegation trips with Kerry around the world. And so I suspect there’s a lot of old history here that is bubbling up.”

    Brooks defended Rice’s Sept. 16 tour of Sunday morning talk shows, when she insisted that intelligence reports indicated the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya was merely a spontaneous, crowd-driven response to an anti-Islam YouTube video.

    The administration eventually acknowledged that the Libya attack was a well-planned assault, and former CIA Director David Petraeus recently testified that it was immediately apparent to intelligence officials that a simple mob was not responsible for the incident.

    Top Republicans, including McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham, have said that Rice’s inaccurate statements disqualify her from becoming the next secretary of state. (RELATED VIDEO: MSNBC vice president says racism is motivating attacks on Rice)

    “Personally, I don’t think it should be disqualifying if Obama decides to choose her as the next secretary of state,” Brooks continued. “Listen, she’s ambassador to U.N. She’s not in charge of intelligence, and she’s not in charge of intelligence reports. It is simultaneously true that they do seem to have scrubbed the intelligence report that she got of any al-Qaida ention. That was probably done within the intelligence community herself.”

    “Her job as U.N. ambassador was just to tell what that intelligence report said on the Sunday shows, and that’s what she did,” Brooks said. “So, I don’t think there’s any reason to disqualify her based on anything that’s happened in the last year. And, frankly, I guess I would cut her a little slack for some of the political attacks she’s taken. So, I guess I don’t agree with [Lindsey] Graham and McCain on this one. But if you’re going to be a diplomat, you should probably be diplomatic all the way around.”

    Read more: David Brooks: McCain opposition to Susan Rice based on history, loyalty to John Kerry [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller


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